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Facebook Is Giving Up on News—Again
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill currently working its way through the UK Parliament could see Meta (as well…
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BuzzFeed and Gawker Meme-ified Reality With This One Weird Trick
Ben Smith thought that he’d be spending the end of April banking interviews about his book that goes on sale…
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Facebook Made BuzzFeed, Then Killed It
In his memo announcing the closure of BuzzFeed’s news operations, CEO Jonah Peretti acknowledged a grave mistake: He hadn’t worked out…
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s House of Cards Is Falling Down
Sam Bankman-Fried is behind bars. The controversial founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX was taken into custody in the Bahamas yesterday…
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Russia Blocks Facebook and Twitter in a Propaganda Standoff
Russia’s government announced on Friday that it has blocked Facebook, raising the stakes in a standoff between Big Tech and…
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Australia’s Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked—Sort Of
Over Zoom, Australia’s communications minister, Paul Fletcher, has the air of a man in the middle of a victory speech.…
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Cars
Why All Stellantis Stereos Go to 38, and Other News from 2021
Well, I sold my Bronco. The diesel one. Did I mention that I did that? I guess not. I had…
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How Facebook Could Break Free From the Engagement Trap
So what’s a better way to think about addressing these problems from a design perspective? This question is one of…
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Lordstown Motors Executives Sold Shares Ahead of Bad News: Report
Usually, if you sell a stock for $24 before it drops to $10, that’s a good thing (well, not for…
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How Some Americans Are Breaking Out of Political Echo Chambers
Last October, students in Sarah Candler’s seventh-grade English class in rural Tennessee were discussing the presidential election, echoing each other’s…
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